Download or read book Falling Blossom written by Momoko Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Winchester, author of A Crack in the Edge of the World and The Professor and the Madman: "The essence of this inexpressibly beautiful story will remain with me, I believe, for the rest of my life. This exquisitely crafted account of the loves and lives of Arthur and Masa, Violet and Kiyoshi - such very ordinary names, yet names that conceal extraordinary passions and confusions - is a tone poem to duty and honour, courage and enduring passion, set against the fantastically rich recent histories of Japan and Ireland, England and France. It is a long time since I have read so moving and haunting a book" This is the true story of an extraordinary love affair. When Captain Arthur Hart-Synnot, a disciplined, conservative officer, met Masa Suzuki, a bright, beautiful Japanese girl, when the British army posted him to Tokyo, he fell for her and within weeks they were living together. Arthur told her she was the 'supreme woman in the world' and they pledged they would love each other for the rest of their lives. But he could not tell the army about her, and they faced almost insuperable barriers of race and class. When he was recalled to London the question was whether Masa had, all the time, just been what expatriates referred to as 'a temporary wife', an exploited Madam Butterfly. Though separated for years at a time, and by huge distances, they remained devoted to each other. Based on a cache of over 800 letters found in Tokyo, the story is set against the wider history and the wars of the first half of the twentieth century. This is a record of enduring love and great loss, where events beyond Arthur and Masa's control dictate the final tragic outcome.
Download or read book A Shadow On Fallen Blossoms written by Andrea Falk and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-26 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The traditional instructional verses of the Chinese martial art of baguazhang. The book includes translation (from sixteen sources) of the original texts, commentary on the meaning, and discussion of the variations in text and translation notes."--
Download or read book Falling Blossoms written by Marcus Wetherby and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Falling Blossoms is an evocative and wide-ranging selection of poems and tales that explores various aspects of different circumstances and cultures. A young woman with an infant and an unfaithful husband desperately searches for a family life. A man realises why he’s been evicted twice in his life. A young woman foresees her own loneliness and mortality in older age. Author Marcus moved to England himself at the age of eighteen and has included his experiences of arriving in Plymouth and the ensuing culture shock that occurred once he arrived. He also looks at several aspects of human emotion; his poem ‘Innocence’ is about losing our childhood dreams; ‘Lacrima per te’, which translates as ‘tears for you’, is the story of a mutual love; ‘Health & safety d’amore’ pokes fun at some men’s attempt at demonstrating their affection; ‘Mourning’ features the absence of words when somebody has just lost a dear one; ‘Old age’ is an old man’s reminiscing of youthful sex; ‘Awakening’ narrates one man’s self-realisation when faced with his own humanity. Falling Blossoms is a poignant and thought-provoking collection that will resonate with every reader in some way. It will appeal to fans of poetry and short stories. Moon, stars, and the neon lights, lovers, poets, and mandolin players.
Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute Auburn written by Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station of the Agricultural and Mechanical College Auburn written by Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute written by Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Agricultural Experiment Station and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Orchard Notes written by C. A. Cary and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bulletin written by Clift Fay Austin and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kamikaze Cherry Blossoms and Nationalisms written by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did almost one thousand highly educated "student soldiers" volunteer to serve in Japan's tokkotai (kamikaze) operations near the end of World War II, even though Japan was losing the war? In this fascinating study of the role of symbolism and aesthetics in totalitarian ideology, Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney shows how the state manipulated the time-honored Japanese symbol of the cherry blossom to convince people that it was their honor to "die like beautiful falling cherry petals" for the emperor. Drawing on diaries never before published in English, Ohnuki-Tierney describes these young men's agonies and even defiance against the imperial ideology. Passionately devoted to cosmopolitan intellectual traditions, the pilots saw the cherry blossom not in militaristic terms, but as a symbol of the painful beauty and unresolved ambiguities of their tragically brief lives. Using Japan as an example, the author breaks new ground in the understanding of symbolic communication, nationalism, and totalitarian ideologies and their execution.
Download or read book Traditional Japanese Literature written by Haruo Shirane and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Japanese Literature features a rich array of works dating from the very beginnings of the Japanese written language through the evolution of Japan's noted aristocratic court and warrior cultures. It contains stunning new translations of such canonical texts as The Tales of the Heike as well as works and genres previously ignored by scholars and unknown to general readers.
Download or read book Linguistic Creativity in Japanese Discourse written by Senko K. Maynard and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2007-07-13 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using theoretical concepts of self, perspective, and voice as an interpretive guide, and based on the Place of Negotiation theory, this volume explores the phenomenon of linguistic creativity in Japanese discourse, i.e., the use of language in specific ways for foregrounding personalized expressive meanings. Personalized expressive meanings include psychological, emotive, interpersonal, and rhetorical aspects of communication, encompassing broad meanings such as feelings of intimacy or distance, emotion, empathy, humor, playfulness, persona, sense of self, identity, rhetorical effects, and so on. Nine analysis chapters explore the meanings, functions, and effects observable in the indices of linguistic creativity, focusing on discourse creativity (style mixture, borrowing others’ styles, genre mixture), rhetorical creativity (puns, metaphors, metaphors in multimodal discourse), and grammatical creativity (negatives, demonstratives, first-person references). Based on the analysis of verbal and visual data drawn from multiple genres of contemporary cultural discourse, this work reveals that by creatively expressing in language we share our worlds from multiple perspectives, we speak in self’s and others’ many voices, and we endlessly create personalized expressive meanings as testimony to our own sense of being.
Download or read book East West Literary Imagination written by Yoshinobu Hakutani and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study traces the shaping presence of cultural interactions, arguing that American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Cultural exchanges between the East and West began in the early decades of the nineteenth century as American transcendentalists explored Eastern philosophies and arts. Hakutani examines this influence through the works of Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. He further demonstrates the East-West exchange through discussions of the interactions by modernists such as Yone Noguchi, Yeats, Pound, Camus, and Kerouac. Finally, he argues that African American literature, represented by Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and James Emanuel, is postmodern. Their works exhibit their concerted efforts to abolish marginality and extend referentiality, exemplifying the postmodern East-West crossroads of cultures. A fuller understanding of their work is gained by situating them within this cultural conversation. The writings of Wright, for example, take on their full significance only when they are read, not as part of a national literature, but as an index to an evolving literature of cultural exchanges.
Download or read book Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms written by Julia Rawlinson and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Red Brush written by Wilt L. Idema and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most exciting recent developments in the study of Chinese literature has been the rediscovery of an extremely rich and diverse tradition of women’s writing of the imperial period (221 B.C.E.–1911 C.E.). Many of these writings are of considerable literary quality. Others provide us with moving insights into the lives and feelings of a surprisingly diverse group of women living in Confucian China, a society that perhaps more than any other is known for its patriarchal tradition.Because of the burgeoning interest in the study of both premodern and modern women in China, several scholarly books, articles, and even anthologies of women’s poetry have been published in the last two decades. This anthology differs from previous works by offering a glimpse of women’s writings not only in poetry but in other genres as well, including essays and letters, drama, religious writing, and narrative fiction.The authors have presented the selections within their respective biographical and historical contexts. This comprehensive approach helps to clarify traditional Chinese ideas on the nature and function of literature as well as on the role of the woman writer."
Download or read book Haiku written by Richard Wright and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The haiku of acclaimed novelist Richard Wright, written at the end of his...
Download or read book Blossoms of Mind written by Prabath. K and published by Umbra Publication. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blossoms are the flowers in a plant or tree that will form the wonderful seeds and fruits. Blossoms are symbolism for imaginations. Blossoms will develop the seeds and fruits .Likewise ,imaginations will develops the fruitful words. Our favourite time of the year may be spring, when all the trees blossoms and the air is perfume with their scent. Similarly, the write-ups from the imaginations will give pleasures to our mind. Our talented co-authors have flourished their fruitful write-ups to make this project successful.
